14 Memo, McNair for Somervell,
24 Jun 43, sub: Reorg of Sv Activities, Hq ASF, AGF (1943-44). The memo was
signed by the AGF chief of staff with the place for McNair's signature vacant.

15 Craven and Cate, AAF 1, p.
576.

16 Ibid., pp. 590-91.

17 WD SO 183, 2 Jul 43. Director
of War Mobilization James F. Byrnes wrote to Secretary Stimson on 24 June 1943
repeating in part a suggestion by the Bureau of the Budget to the War Department
on 8 May 1943. Secretary Stimson's reply to justice Byrnes, and General
Marshall's instructions to the chairman of the War Department Procurement Review
Board were drafted by General Clay of Somervell's staff. In turn, Somervell on 1
July 1943 instructed Generals Clay, Lutes, Gross, and C. F. Robinson to furnish
the board with "full information." This correspondence is in Hq ASF,
Procurement Review Board.

18 The report of the Procurement
Review Board and other documents arising out of the board's work were collected
in two volumes which were multilithed and distributed by the Office of the
Deputy Chief of Staff under the title, Levels of Supply and Supply Procedures, 1
January 1944. The report of the Procurement Review Board was Appendix B; See
also Annual Rpt of ASF, 1944, pp. 101-04.